May 24, 2012

River Building, Carleton University

Ottawa, Ontario

On May 24, Carleton University and the Royal Norwegian Embassy will co-host “Global Governance for Health”, a one-day event which will bring together Canadian researchers, policymakers, and private organizations to exchange proposals on how to improve global governance to achieve better health worldwide.

For more information about this event, please click here.

To view the preliminary program for this event, please click here.

To RSVP to this event, please click here.

Executive Course on Global Health Diplomacy   

18-22 June 2012

Geneva, Switzerland 

Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute 

Applications now open!

Deadline: Sunday, 1 April 2012

Global Health Programme of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies offers this intensive five-day course in response to new skills needed as health moves beyond its purely technical realm to become an ever more critical element in foreign policy, security policy and trade agreements. Since 2007, the course has focused on health diplomacy and negotiations with changing thematic emphasis each year.

This year’s course will explore current debates at the interface with foreign policy, trade, climate change through multi-disciplinary learning process. Negotiation simulations and skill building activities will facilitate the real-life backdrop discussion, along with high-level introduction to the field of global health diplomacy and key challenges at national, regional and global levels.

This executive course targets applicants from different professional backgrounds, such as health attachés, health and international relations professionals in departments of international health, as well as staff in international organisations, NGOs, philanthropic and the private sector.

For more information on the course and the application form, please click here.

For more information contact the GHP at the Graduate Institute.

June 18-22, 2012

Georgetown Law

Washington, D.C.

This program is open to all (lawyers and non-lawyers).  The program will include practitioners, policymakers, advocates and leading academics in global health to learn the foundations of global health law and governance.  Participants will explore a number of issues, which will include international trade and health, the International Health Regulations, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, health and human rights, non-communicable diseases and the international regulation of food and drugs.  

We are now accepting applications on this webpage: www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/summerprogram/

Please feel free to contact the O’Neill Institute with any additional questions.

To view the Summer Program Guide please click here.

To view the Summer Program Agenda please click here.

To view the Summer Program Confirmed Speakers List please click here.

August 13 - 24, 2012

Carleton University

Ottawa, Ontario

The Office of Professional Training and Development at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Public Health Agency of Canada are pleased to announce a cooperative Program in International Biological Sciences Security Management and the pilot offering of the first Advanced Certificate in International Biological Sciences Security workshop this August 2012.

This 10 – day, intensive program has a focus on Canadian and international biosafety, dual-use biosecurity and bioethics and is intended for the training of personnel in facilities handling human pathogens and toxins, bringing issues of dual-use to a broader community, and to enhance biosafety and biosecurity practices in a Biological Sciences Security Management framework nationally and internationally. This cooperative course, featuring Canadian and international experts, is the first step in the development of a joint curriculum on biosafety and biosecurity for life scientists in Canadian institutions.

For more information, please click here, or visit the NPSIA Carleton website here.